{"id":413,"date":"2008-07-26T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T05:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/07\/26\/churches-need-do-more-on-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2008-07-26T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T05:47:51","slug":"churches-need-do-more-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/07\/26\/churches-need-do-more-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches &#8216;need do more on climate change&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"word-spacing: 0px; font: 12px Verdana; text-transform: none; color: #000000; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; border-collapse: separate; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\" class=\"first\">A researcher for the Australian National University says Christian denominations need to do more to address climate change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\">Steve Douglas has studied the policies of the Catholic, Anglican and Uniting churches and found the Anglican Church is the least effective.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\">He says the Uniting Church has more policies but a poor record for implementation and the Catholic Church has a small environmental organisation but is restricted in policy making.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\">Dr Douglas says all three denominations need to become more focused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/07\/21\/2310156.htm\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A researcher for the Australian National University says Christian denominations need to do more to address climate change. Steve Douglas has studied the policies of the Catholic, Anglican and Uniting churches and found the Anglican Church is the least effective. He says the Uniting Church has more policies but a poor record for implementation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}